Adventures with the Hunsaker's: Last Thanksgiving in the Midwest

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Last Thanksgiving in the Midwest

For Thanksgiving we went to Ohio again to be with my Uncle Del and his family. We've had such a great time visiting them over our years out here in the Midwest and I'm definitely going to miss that when we go back to Oregon. Christopher, Cameron, Jenna, you're VERY welcome to come our place next year if you can make it out of Utah!

When we got to Ohio Wednesday night, Avery was already asking to take a bath in Del and Darla's bit spa tub. He had to wait a day, but he got his wish...

Thanksgiving this year was actually down in Cincinnati where Darla's family is from. Thanks to JD and Debbie for hosting us!
I don't have a clue where the clown wig came from...

The boys loved these stacking slide things. I remember playing with those things when I was a kid! Of course, I'm including Travis when I say boys...

Avery discovers the whoopee cushion...

Julia with Emmett, Sarah and MaKenna:

MaKenna and Avery (the tryptophan must have kicked in):

Emmett and Jenna enjoying a joke?

Sleeping babies are just so sweet!

The day after Thanksgiving Avery and Carson watched Darla do some Christmas wrapping and each of them got smacked with a bow:

Carson figures he needs an airplane on his head too.

Time to go home... Carson was having non of it...

Carson, Julia, Jenna, Avery, Sarah, MaKenna, Emmett and Ivy (the dog)

Carson had some excellent sleep hair after one of his naps in the car on the way home...

Thanks Del and Darla for another great Thanksgiving! Thanks girls for all your time with the boys, especially Sarah and MaKenna! Thanks Jenna for the use of your room again and for being awesome enough to know Twilight is where it's at! Thanks Julia for one of my favorite parts - getting to puzzle with you and do the crosswords!

Happy Thanksgiving!

4 comments:

Aaron and Kristel said...: How fun! It looks like you and your boys had a Happy Thanksgiving! :); December 3, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Mindy said...: Emmett is getting big. (Is it just me or am I always saying that?...well, it's true!) Nice hair Carson! hahaha. I bet Avery came out all pruny--my kids would be begging for that bath too.
What a great time! Happy Thanksgiving!; December 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Anonymous said...: I would check into what's in the water in Ohio if after a bath you get clown hair! Carson must not have bathed as long and thank goodness Emmett just doesn't have enough yet to be affected. Why is there no photo of you? What happened to your hair? You did take a shower????; December 4, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Unknown said...: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the bath picture. It's so beautiful! I'm not even kidding, in case you think I am.

It was fun to see you today! As I drove home I was thinking I'd love a repeat scenerio. Thanks for all the tips about the you-know-what. (Christmas present); December 5, 2008 at 12:47 PM

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About Laurie

I met Travis in Institute at Oregon State University in 2001 and we were married Aug 2002. We have 3 boys, Avery, Carson and Emmett. I love photography and run a business, Laurie Marie Photography. We live in Salem, OR where we love to enjoy all the green and hike the waterfalls or head out to the coast. I love nature and feel like I can't get enough of its beauty. Going to the dunes has always been a favorite where I get nature and driving fast on a quad or in a sandrail! I'm also a scuba diver now and always so excited to explore this new area of the outdoors and new opportunities to create beautiful pictures. I'm an avid reader and love book club.

About Avery

Avery was born in Dec 2004 and is now 7 and almost a 2st grader. He loves being a big brother to Carson and Emmett.
When he grows up Avery still wants to be a dentist. He's still big on science and loves watching any and all science or nature related shows. He's always had a love for money (think Mr. Krabs on Spongebob or Scrooge McDuck) and now his new fascination is with gold. He has his own gold pan and has received some pay dirt but really wants to get out and pan or dredge for gold. He loves swimming lessons and has no fear at all of the water (all the more reason we need him to learn to swim well) and tells me he's made for swimming.
Avery continues to be off the chart tall, and while he's not as skinny as he used to be, he's still skinny.

Avery tells me what he loves: playing in the water, swimming and diving, playing outside, going in the dry creek with friends, making forts out of pillows, going on hikes especially to waterfalls, everything science especially finding bugs and doing experiments and watching science shows and going to OMSI, watching the fish in our aquarium, riding my bike and playing in the snow, I want to find gold, going to the beach and seeing the tide pools and playing in the sand.

About Carson

Carson was born in March of 2007 and is now 5 years old.
He loves his brothers and doing whatever his brothers are doing. Carson is still an incredible puzzler and loves doing them on a regular basis. He also loves swimming lessons but has a lot more respect for the water and is reserved. He's still a picky eater but loves fruits, vegetables, chicken nuggets, nachos or any type of "nacho" soup, pb&j and that's about it. At least he loves fruits and vegetables! Carson's new obsession is Star Wars. He just can't get enough. Carson has had the best of best friends in Theo for almost two years now and they remain thick as thieves. They've gone to school together and Carson's favorite day has been Mondays when they get to take turns going to each others' homes to play for the day after school. This fall they'll start Kindergarten at separate schools, but we're keeping play dates. Carson is still tall, but not off the chart like his brothers.

Carson tells me what he loves: going on hikes, doing bike races with my brothers, going to the end of the creek, playing with Star Wars Legos, playing with Theo, OMSI, playing with my brothers, getting fish for our aquarium, swimming lessons, going to the beach and seeing the tide pools and playing in the sand and running in the surf, watching tv, and music.

About Emmett

Emmett was born in September of 2008 and is now almost 4 years old.
Emmett is still Mr. Mischief but at least he's not the run-away escape artist he used to be. He loves to pretend to be different animals, but especially a cat and curl up in your lap. After a rough start Emmett loves getting to have his turn at preschool. He's still a go go go kind of boy, but really likes to be with Mom or Dad. Especially Dad. Emmett continues to be off the chart tall, but while he's skinny he still has more breadth than Avery.

Emmett tells me what he loves: You and me shopping, getting married with you (um , married to Daddy bud, but I love you!), watching tv with you, sitting next to you, riding my bike, going to the beach and seeing the tide pools, playing with toys, building forts, picking flowers for you, when I'm a grown up I'll scuba dive with Dad, going to the movie theater with you, going hiking, Grandma and Grandpa Benjamin coming over. -My sweet Emmett, he's so much mischief, but so much love!